We Want It All positions poetry as an everyday weapon, formidable against the cruel mundane.
Author Archives: Keenan Teddy Smith
Keenan Teddy Smith is a writer and researcher native to Flint, Michigan. Currently living in Pilsen, Chicago, Teddy’s words have appeared in PAPER Magazine, the Advocate, RaceBaitr, and the New York Times’ T Magazine. His work aims to both imagine and document literary and visual resistances to raced, classed, and gendered regimes of colonial power.
Amoako Boafo’s Textured, Intimate Portraits Produced During the Pandemic
Both on and off the canvas, Boafo’s practice is dedicated to honoring the intimate space held between Black artists and their subjects.
“The Maladjusted RULE!”: A Conversation With Vaginal Davis
The intersectional nature of Davis’s commentary on Black feminism, sexuality, and the distinction between sex and gender has aged incredibly well — much like the artist herself.
The South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid
The history of the Medu Art Ensemble reminds us of the role artists play in making the aims of revolutionary thinking tangible.
Collage as Confession and the Fashioning of Black Gay Men
The Many Hats of Ralph Arnold: Art, Identity & Politics showcases the Black, gay artist’s 1970s photocollages, which commented upon mass media portrayals of sexuality and race.
Challenging the Narrative of “Gentrification as Development” in Chicago
Peeling off the Grey, an exhibition at the National Museum of Mexican Art, offers visual understandings of the gentrification of one Chicago neighborhood.